 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Friday that mentally Russian soldiers had lost the war and that Ukraine needed to turn that into the reality of their physical retreat. In their minds, the occupiers are already ready for defeat. They have already lost this war in their minds. We must put daily pressure on them so that their sense of defeat turns into their retreat, their mistakes, their losses, Zelensky said in his evening daily address. Later on Friday, Ukraine reported small gains around the eastern battlefield city of Bakhmut with a two kilometers gain around the city this week. Moscow acknowledged on Friday that its forces had fallen back north of Bakhmut after a new Ukrainian offensive. Zelensky said in an interview with European broadcasters published on Thursday that the long-awaited counter-offensive had yet to start. In his Friday address, Zelensky promised to provide Ukrainian forces with more weaponry without specifying the type.